Post by Admin on Nov 24, 2019 4:11:01 GMT
When I watch war movies I'm in my heart an ordnance man I watch the weapons, count rounds and how their used by the soldiers, near the end in the final battle scene the sniper on the bell tower is using a 1903 Springfield rifle, a bolt action that had an internal 5 round magazine, so I hear people saying SO WHAT? Well if you count the rounds fired he fires 8 rounds before the tank takes him out and at no time did he top off his rifle, to me this means the director or the prop man just assumed that the 03 and the M1 garand held the same amount and didn't include the reload during breaks in the scene for camara reposition, now that said we go to sticky bombs
The "Grenade, Hand, Anti-Tank No. 74", commonly known as the S.T. grenade
or sticky bomb, was a British hand grenade designed and produced during the Second World War. The grenade was one of a number of anti-tank weapons developed for use by the British Army and Home Guard as an ad hoc solution to a lack of sufficient anti-tank guns in the aftermath of the Dunkirk evacuation. Designed by a team from MIR(c) including Major Millis Jefferis and Stuart Macrae, the grenade consisted of a glass sphere containing an explosive made of nitroglycerin and additives (this added stability to the mix, as well as giving it its squash-head-like effect) covered in a strong adhesive and surrounded by a sheet-metal casing. When the user pulled a pin on the handle of the grenade, the casing would fall away and expose the sticky sphere. Pulling another pin would arm the firing mechanism and the user would then attempt to attach the grenade to an enemy tank or other vehicle. Letting go of the handle would release a lever that would activate a five-second fuse, which would then detonate the nitroglycerin. And not a sock filled with explosives and smeared in grease, not saying an improvised bomb of this sort might not have existed but it was not a text book sticky bomb as explained by Capt. Miller
Sticky bomb
The "Grenade, Hand, Anti-Tank No. 74", commonly known as the S.T. grenade
or sticky bomb, was a British hand grenade designed and produced during the Second World War. The grenade was one of a number of anti-tank weapons developed for use by the British Army and Home Guard as an ad hoc solution to a lack of sufficient anti-tank guns in the aftermath of the Dunkirk evacuation. Designed by a team from MIR(c) including Major Millis Jefferis and Stuart Macrae, the grenade consisted of a glass sphere containing an explosive made of nitroglycerin and additives (this added stability to the mix, as well as giving it its squash-head-like effect) covered in a strong adhesive and surrounded by a sheet-metal casing. When the user pulled a pin on the handle of the grenade, the casing would fall away and expose the sticky sphere. Pulling another pin would arm the firing mechanism and the user would then attempt to attach the grenade to an enemy tank or other vehicle. Letting go of the handle would release a lever that would activate a five-second fuse, which would then detonate the nitroglycerin. And not a sock filled with explosives and smeared in grease, not saying an improvised bomb of this sort might not have existed but it was not a text book sticky bomb as explained by Capt. Miller
Sticky bomb
